Hills and memories frame Chetwynd notes and plans
The article blends verse and local news from Chetwynd. It notes pleasant memories from Industrial Days, lodging wine and cheese parties, and renewing friendships with Ann and Breta Langerud. It mentions a provincial youth employment grant for three students at the Tourist Information Centre in July and August, plus local honors and events including a fishing derby winner Jack Douglas with a 15 pound 4 ounce fish.
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Mobherly Lake
Jack Douglas
Chetwynd
Hartford elected to director's board
Mrs. Janet Hartford of Dawson Creek was elected a Director of the British Columbia Lung Association at the Annual Meeting in Vancouver on May 14. She will be Christmas Seal Committee Chairman in Peace River South for 1981. Dr. Jack Rosenblatt was named President, Gary Cooper Vice President, and Mel Rochberg Honorary Treasurer. Delegates from fifty BC communities attended and heard on occupational lung disease, rehabilitation, CPR, and community services.
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Janet Hartford
Dawson Creek
British Columbia Lung Association
Vancouver
Jack Rosenblatt
Gary Cooper
Mel Rochberg
British Columbia
The
Lung Association
Peace River- Liard Regional District
Police Coupe Community Hospital
Disabled Vancouverites seek steady work in 1981 year
Rick Watson, 27, cerebral palsy, uses a headband and metal finger to type. Yoshinoru Tanabe, with a finance diploma, also struggles to find work. Both confirm limits on earnings and benefits, highlighting a poor record for hiring disabled people in British Columbia. About 19 disabilities exist, with only 129 disabled workers among 24,110 employed in surveyed BC businesses.
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Vancouver
Rick Watson
Watson
B.C
Vancouver Community College
Ministry of Human Resources
Picasso Self Portrait Sets Auction World Record
Pablo Picasso's Self-Portrait Yo Picasso sold for 5.3 million dollars, the highest price for a Picasso and a 20th century painting at auction. A Renoir record followed with Two Young Girls Reading fetching 2.0 million dollars, surpassing last year's mark.
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New York
Pablo Picasso
Yo Picasso
Sotheby Parke Bernet
Picasso
Auguste Renoir
Renoir
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Helen Fletcher Collins
Ann
Breta Langerud
Saskatchewan
Chetywnd
John Paul
Bell-Irving
Hartford
Canada
46Th Street
R.C.M.P
Yoshinoru Tanabe
Lambpland
Pamia
Eamit
Grande Praine
Alta
St. Peace River
Leona Freiman
Social Planning and Review Council
Lee Wi
Peace River
Liard
Northern B.C. Truckers Association
George Dawson
Dawson Creek, B.C
Don Kelly
Wayne Asleson
Dave Crowle
Saucer
Chetwynd Centre
Province of
Ministry of Transportation and Highways
Dawson Creek Highway
Dawson Creek Highway District
S.D. Gladysz
Minister of Transportation and Highways
Harwood Products
LTD
Beaver Rd
Fort St. John, B.C
Mile ‘O’ Post
Peacock
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